Joseph Omotayo

Education: Bachelor of Arts Literature-in-English, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife (2012-2016), Google News Initiative (GNI) News Lab Advance digital reporting workshop (2024)

Experience: Critical Literature Review (Head reviewer) 2010-2014, The234Project (Writer) 2016-2017, Coordinator of OAU The234Project Essay contest (2017), Afridiaspora (Chief Reviewer, 2016-2018), Dubawa Fact checking fellow (2022)

Awards: Best editor and writer (Legit.ng, 2020), My Favourite Nigerian Character in a Book Contest (2011), Unoma Azuah’s Edible Bones Book Review Prize (2013)

Joseph Omotayo has been writing for the human interest desk since 2019 and is currently the head of the desk. He graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, with a degree in Literature in English in 2016. He once worked for Afridiaspora, OlisaTV & CLR. He is a 2022/2023 Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking fellow. He can be reached via: joseph.omotayo@corp.legit.ng.

6165 articles published since 08 Jan 2019

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No pay, no work - ASUU goes hot on FG, issues deadline

Nigeria

5 years ago

Google honours Fela's mother, Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti, with special logo (photo)

Nigeria

5 years ago

How I got broke after I squandered $40m on Bugatti, houses, bad investments -...

World

5 years ago

5 important things to know about Nigerian man who became new serjeant-at-arms in...

Ask Legit

5 years ago

Oprah Winfrey reacts to Nigerian boy's broken phone, buys him new iPhone (video,...

World

5 years ago

Jubilation as Innoson invites boy who redesigned its company's logo for a...

Nigeria

5 years ago

Just in: Ministers to only fly business class, must submit travel plans to SGF

Nigeria

5 years ago

President Muhammadu Buhari has given approval to a new rule that mandates all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to make a submission of their annual travel schedules to the office of the SGF.

Smart move as actor's mother turned down $2m deal for her child, asked for $100k continuous payment

World

5 years ago

Jason Weaver, who is the singing voice for Young Simba character for Disney’s The Lion King, has revealed how he turned down a deal from the popular movie company.

Top 5 Africans who got the biggest honour in the world (see full list)

Ask Legit

5 years ago

Wole Soyinka, Nelson Mandela and three others are among several Africans that have been awarded the Nobel Prize honour since its inception in 1895.

Navy goes hard on smugglers, arrests 4 suspects, seizes 220 bags of rice

Business and Economy

5 years ago

The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base in Mbo local government in Akwa Ibom, has made an arrest of four suspects smuggling 220 bags of 50kg rice.

Police chief says death penalty is key solution to fight corruption

Nigeria

5 years ago

The commissioner of police in Kaduna, Ali Aju-Janga, state on Wednesday, October 9, asked for the review of the law against corruption in the country, asking that it includes life jail term and death penalty.

Meet Nigerian mathematical genius, Iya Abubakar, who became a professor at 28

Nigeria

5 years ago

Professor Iya Abubakar, a mathematical genius, the third vice chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria was also many times a minister of the federal republic of Nigeria.

Newspaper review for October 3: Uproar as FG plans to introduce toll gates

Nigeria

5 years ago

The headlines of mainstream Nigerian newspapers for Thursday, October 3, are focused on the reintroduction of toll gate fees, the fine 12 banks will be paying the CBN for breaching its contracts, among other top stories.

New development emerges from Bauchi governorship tribunal ruling between APC, PDP

Nigeria

5 years ago

The Bauchi state governorship election petitions tribunal has picked Monday, October 7, for ruling in the petition put forward by the All progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Muhammed Abdullahi Abubakar.

25 supercars seized from Equatorial Guinean vice president to be sold off in Switzerland

World

5 years ago

A collection of supercars that were seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea's president, Teodorin Obiang Nguema, will be sold off in Switzerland at estimated price of $18.7 million.

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